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Reasonable Conclusions and Legalizing Prostitution Dennis Cruz

05/03/2018

CRT 1401

This is the last reading assignment from the little green book, Asking the Right Questions. Congratulations! This assignment is similar to the Immigrant Paradox assignment from the beginning of the semester, where we used the same Reasons to reach the opposite Conclusion. Q1. How is this chapter connected to the Either/Or Fallacy discussed in Chapter 7 (pages 91-92)? In a way an argument can gives you two options only, accept or denied the conclusion given. In this chapter, they open the box to consider more options, other conclusions beside the ones given and what counter-reasons can one find. There might be more options to follow or more reasons to find.

Q2. How much evidence, and what quality of evidence do you need to support a Conclusion before you decide to accept it? Give a specific example of one of your beliefs and the amount and/or quality of the evidence supporting your belief. My belief: Recreational marihuana should not be legal. The evidence that supports my belief: Some of my friend smoke marihuana and I have seen how addictive it can be and the repercussions it has in them. Sometimes they lose their short-term memory and others they lose focus. One of them got addicted since he was 15 years old and his personal appearance have

decreased greatly since then. Some might say it doesn’t lead to mental illness, but marihuana does and I see in the people around me.

Q3. Practice Passage 3: Legalizing Prostitution, pg. 190-192: Generate a different Conclusion that could also be derived from the Reasons in the passage, including a Conclusion which is the opposite of what the author suggests as the only possible Conclusion for Passage 3. Remember, there are both "anti-legalization" and "pro-legalization" Reasons in the same Passage. (Do not add new Reasons, only use the following five Reasons given in the Passage.) In generating your own Conclusion and Reasons, you might use the “when, where, and why” questions on page 183 or the “if-clause” pattern on pages 186-187 or the “What should we do about Y? (either R1, R2, R3, R4 or R5),” re-wording of the question to help you create your revised Reasons for this passage. Issue: Should prostitution be legalized? Anti-Legalization Conclusion: No! Reason 1 Many people use prostitutes

Reason 2 Prostitution is Immoral Reason 3 Prostitution Causes STDs

Reason 4 Prostitution Causes men to cheat

Reason 5 Prostitution Breaks up families

Q3a. My Revised Pro-Legalization Conclusion: Yes! Q3b. Revised Reason A (from any of the five reasons listed above) Prostitutes look to be used as a way of income for their families. They might look for costumers because they need money to survive. Q3c. Revised Reason B (from any of the five reasons listed above) It is immoral to take away free will and freedom of expression. Women have control over their own bodies to use it as they desire. Q3d. Revised Reason C (from any of the five reasons listed above) Men stop cheating on their wives when something is legal, such as prostitution. The interest of doing something prohibited is no longer there.

Q4. Identify the Value Conflict (VC) in this passage: The author might values tradition over free will....